Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

Doing the technical review was again a pleasant experience. It is interesting to see the book emerge and it is motivating to see your (hopefully) valuable comments and remarks being added to its contents. I’m looking forward to possibly publish my own one in the near future :)

Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript really is for someone who wants to get started with Win8 app development. You don’t know any HTML5? CSS3? Shouldn’t be an issue. The book gets you up to speed by starting at the basic HTML5 structure, introducing semantic elements and continues with an extensive outline of styling concepts with CSS3. I found this quite useful as I always again encounter many web developers not knowing enough or even not caring about CSS, although I personally find it an important part of a fully fledged web developer.

So, what am I going to learn from the book?

What you’ll learn really covers most of what you’d need to successfully create and deploy your first Windows 8 application: